Oleksandra graduated with honours from the Ukrainian Humanities Lyceum and the Faculty of Law at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2007. She completed her postgraduate studies in the Department of Theory and History of State and Law in 2010 and graduated from the School of Lawmaking at the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in 2011. In 2018, she participated in the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program at Stanford University’s Centre on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL).
While in her fourth year at Taras Shevchenko University, Oleksandra conducted human rights training sessions through the Human Rights Foundation and managed student governance at the Faculty of Law, in addition to teaching law at a gymnasium in her hometown, Boyarka. In June 2021, Oleksandra was nominated as a candidate for the UN Committee Against Torture.
Since 2007, she has chaired the Board of the Centre for Civil Liberties, served as a member of the Advisory Council to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights since 2012, and coordinated the civil initiative ‘Euromaidan SOS’, which was launched after the violent dispersal of student protesters on November 30, 2013, to provide legal support for persecuted demonstrators in Ukraine.
In 2022, she received the Hillary Clinton Award from Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace, and Security.